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‘Building Better Mice’ Is the Goal of a New NCI Consortium

‘Building Better Mice’ Is the Goal of a New NCI Consortium

July 01, 1998

BETHESDA, Md--Forget about a better mousetrap, the National Cancer
Institute wants to build better mice.

The Institute plans to fund the "Mouse Models for Human Cancer
Consortium," consisting of up to six research teams with the
necessary scientific and technical expertise to develop new mouse
strains or improve existing mouse strains for cancer research.

The aim is to seek new animal models "to test current and future
therapeutic or prevention strategies, or for early detection or
diagnostic imaging," Cheryl Marks, PhD, of the NCIs
Division of Cancer Biology told the National Cancer Advisory Board.

The NCI expects to solicit and review applications, and have the
consortium up and running in the spring of 1999. The consortium
concept aims to encourage teams "to pursue their most innovative
ideas and to implement new technologies" and to "stimulate
interactions among the teams in the consortium, the NCI, and the
cancer research community," Dr. Marks said.

The mouse models consortium is the first major recommendation from
NCIs Preclinical Models for Cancer Working Group. NCI is
currently pursuing how best to implement other recommendations from
the working group.

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